owen wrote:
I would assume AC uses the system-wide spell checker available in Windows or OSX rather than having its own built in? I have no idea so if anyone knows ...

I think you can create your own word lists to add to these libraries ... would have to do some research though. Never really thought about it but this could be useful for adding technical terms/abbreviations, names etc that you commonly use.

Hi - ArchiCAD uses Microsoft Word dictionary for spell checker. It is indeed supposed to allow you to add words, technical abbreviations etc to dictionary, but this has not worked for many ArchiCAD versions.
You can try it by making up a new word, and copy-pasting it 10 times in an ArchiCAD window then spell checking... Spell checker will stop again at each one, no matter how often you have told it to add or ignore that word.

You're right ... i had not actually noticed that it doesn't work in the ArchiCAD spell checker.

I assume the spell checker on Mac is based on the built in OSX Dictionary, not the MS Word one.

Either way .. can the words be added outside ArchiCAD and then does AC recognize them as 'correct' (I have not tried). I know this isn't very convienient ...

owen wrote:
You're right ... i had not actually noticed that it doesn't work in the ArchiCAD spell checker.

I assume the spell checker on Mac is based on the built in OSX Dictionary, not the MS Word one.

Either way .. can the words be added outside ArchiCAD and then does AC recognize them as 'correct' (I have not tried). I know this isn't very convienient ...

Unfortunately, even if you do add the word manually (eg by opening a session of MS Word), it won't help. Anyway, ArchiCAD writes to the custom dictionary perfectly well, but just does not read from it when spell checking - only uses the main built-in MS Word dictionary